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Creates a competitive grant program to fund housing and services that let people experiencing homelessness keep pets and receive pet care support.
Official title: To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to modify and upgrade structures to serve as interim and permanent housing to accommodate unhoused individuals with pets, and for other purposes.
Introduced August 8, 2025 by Jason Crow · Last progress August 8, 2025
Creates a new competitive grant program to help build, buy, renovate, or retrofit housing that allows people experiencing homelessness to live with their pets and to support associated pet care costs and services. Grants may fund construction or conversion of interim or permanent housing, pet housing and supplies, pet-related operating costs, training for staff/volunteers, and supportive and veterinary services, and require coordination with local homelessness systems. Eligible applicants include local governments, nonprofits, and entities that provide housing or shelters for people experiencing homelessness (animal shelters may partner but cannot be primary applicants). The program is to be administered by the Agriculture Secretary in consultation with HUD and is funded at $5 million per year for FY2026–FY2030, with annual reporting requirements for grantees.